O How He Doesn't Get It

Not even close:

Learn Your Lincoln, Mr. President :: Hands Off Texas!: "On Wednesday during a speech in Parma, Ohio, President Obama decided to quote a former President to help justify his policy initiatives:

“But in the words of the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, I also believe that government should do for the people what they cannot do better for themselves”.

I assume he was paraphrasing this actual quote from President Lincoln, but unfortunately he left out the most important part:

“The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.”

Obama doesn’t get it. And he clearly doesn’t get Abraham Lincoln."

Ah, you say, but look at more Lincoln and you'll see that O Duce is correct. Really?

“You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.”

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”

“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.”

Go RTWT including the Ten Cannots (sometimes falsely attributed to Lincoln) at the end.

Now that's not to say that Lincoln is perfect. Far from it. In fact you could argue that he was our final deliverance into "Hamilton's Curse". I cannot recommend this book too highly. And as for what O Duce really is and how he got there I strongly recommend D'Souza's "The Roots of Obama's Rage" and Kurtz' "Radical-in-Chief".